SPECIAL REPORTS

(ANS – Rome) – The Provincial who receives a new missionary in his Province has the obligation to ensure that he has formal language course of at least six months, which can be extended if the new missionary needs it. Today’s youth generally speak a foreign language, besides their national language. Thus, as pastor-educator of the young, bilingualism is a reality every Salesian in every context is challenged to face.

(ANS - Madrid) - When we talk about the foundation of the Past Pupils of Don Bosco there is a figure of undoubted importance that deserves to be duly known and studied: Carlo Gastini, one of the first young people raised in Valdocco by the Saint of Youth. Due to the recent 150th anniversary of the symbolic birth of the Past Pupils (1870-2020), a biography has been produced. The text, published in Spanish, is entitled: "Carlo Gastini - El poeta de Valdocco".

(ANS - Kigali) - For months, the pandemic has prevented visits to Salesian works around the world. Finally, after a long time, in some countries such as Rwanda, entry is again possible. Here, local authorities have adopted security protocols against the spread of the infection, which have made Rwanda one of the world's safest countries.

(ANS - Vatican City) - When the pandemic will finally be behind the whole world, there will be a need for a world of work that is different from what it was before, that knows how to start from the discarded, those set aside, left behind, and that knows how to value and appreciate the dimension of caring. These two ideas, taken from the message that Pope Francis sent to the 109th International Labor Conference, are analyzed by Sister Alessandra Smerilli, religious of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, undersecretary for faith and development to the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development and the coordinator of the Vatican's COVID-19 commission's economic task force. Below, a summary of her reflection.

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